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Early Nineteenth-Century Prose
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trn of extracts of this trn, Description of an old book, ed J. A.
Donahoe, Wilmington DE [c. 1958]); London [1796], 1797 (‘3rd
edn’), Cambridge 1797 (as Annals of blood by an American),
London 1798 (11 abridged edns), Paradise PA 1823 (‘2nd edn’),
Philadelphia 1823 (‘3rd edn’), Woodbridge CT 1983 (microform
edn).
History of the American Jacobins. By ‘Peter Porcupine’.
Philadelphia 1796, 1796, Edinburgh 1797.
The life and adventures of Peter Porcupine. By ‘Peter Porcupine’.
Philadelphia 1796, 1796, 1797 (‘2nd edn’), London 1797, Glasgow
1797, 1798, London 1809 (‘2nd edn’); rev as The life of William
Cobbett 1809; 1816 (‘2nd’, ‘7th’, ‘8th’, ‘9th’ edns); New York 1970;
ed G. D. H. Cole 1927 (‘with other records of his early career’).
The life of Thomas Paine. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1796,
London 1797, 1797 (as Cobbett’s review of The life). Hostile edns,
Sunderland 1819, Durham 1819, New York 1892, London 1892.
Rptd from the Political Censor, 1796, below, ed Cobbett from Lives
of Paine by H. Mackenzie and ‘F. Oldys’ [G. Chalmers].
A new year’s gift to the Democrats. By ‘Peter Porcupine’.
Philadelphia 1796, 1796, 1798.
The Political Censor. Also Porcupine’s Political Censor. Philadelphia
1796–7. A monthly periodical, ed Cobbett, nos 2–9, a continuation
of A prospect from the Congress gallery (below) and continued
as Porcupine’s Gazette.
A prospect from the Congress gallery. By ‘Peter Porcupine’.
Philadelphia 1796, 1796. Continued as monthly periodical The
Political Censor 1796–7.
The scare-crow. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1796, 1796, 1797.
Rptd from Political Censor 1796, above.
The carriers of Porcupine’s Gazette. [Philadelphia 1797.] Poem.
Democratic principles illustrated by example. By ‘Peter Porcupine’.
2 pts (pt 1 extracted from pt 2 of A bone to gnaw 1795; pt 2
extracted from The bloody buoy 1796). [Manchester 1797],
Dublin [1797] (5th edn), 1798, London 1798 (‘2nd’–’18th’ edns),
London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen 1798 (‘7th’ edn);
Birmingham [1798] (shortened (unauthorised?) rev pt 1 as Read
and reflect: a faint picture of the horrors); Quebec 1799 (‘16th
edn’).
A letter to the infamous Tom Paine. By ‘Peter Porcupine’.
[Philadelphia 1797], New York 1797, London 1797, Glasgow 1797,
Edinburgh 1797, [1798?]. Rptd from Political Censor 1796, above.
Observations on the debates of the American Congress. By ‘Peter
Porcupine’. [Philadelphia 1797?], London 1797. Rptd from
Political Censor 1796, above.
Porcupine’s Gazette and United States Daily Advertiser. Daily
evening periodical, ed Cobbett, Philadelphia 4 Mar 1797–28 Aug
1799; title changed to Porcupine’s Gazette 24 Apr 1799; weekly,
Bustleton 6 Sep–11 Oct 1799 and 19–26 Oct 1799; New York, final
no, 13 Jan 1800; another tri-weekly edn Philadelphia 3 Mar
1798–28 Aug 1799, extracts pbd as The country porcupine, 5 Mar
1798–26 Aug 1799. Porcupine’s Gazette inspired a Pennsylvanian
Ger imitation and partial trn: Der deutsche Porcupein und
Lancaster Anzeigs Nachrichten, weekly, Lancaster PA 3 Jan
1798–25 Dec 1799, later Der Americanische Staatsbothe.
The democratic judge. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1798; pbd
in England as The republican judge 1798 (3 edns), New York 1970,
Ann Arbor MI 1973 (microform edn).
Detection of a conspiracy. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1798,
London 1799, Dublin 1799.
The detection of Bache. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. [Philadelphia 1798.]
Broadside, rptd from Porcupine’s Gazette 20 June 1798, above.
French arrogance. By ‘Peter Porcupine’. Philadelphia 1798, New
York 1915 (in Magazine of History, no 44). Poem.
Remarks on the insidious letter [The antidote]. By ‘Peter Porcupine’.
[Philadelphia 1798.] Broadside, rptd from Porcupine’s Gazette 16
June 1798, above.
Proposals for publishing Porcupine’s works. [Philadelphia] 1799.
Remarks on the explanation lately published by Dr Priestley. By
‘Peter Porcupine’. 1799 (rptd from Porcupine’s Gazette, above, Sep
1798–Jan 1799); tr Fr 1798 (ed Cobbett as Lettres au Docteur
Priestley).
The trial of republicanism. Philadelphia 1799 (no known copy),
London 1801 (with postscript).
An address to the people of England. London and New York 1800,
Philadelphia 1812, London 1830. From The Rush-Light, below.
A brief statement of opinions. Philadelphia 1800. Written with
Cobbett?
Cobbett’s advice. [1800.] Broadside, rev and repbd as Prospectus of a
new daily paper, 1800, 1800; rptd as A refutation of the present
political sentiments, as appendix to The British treaty, by
Governor Morris 1808, 1808.
The Porcupine. Daily periodical, ed Cobbett 30 Oct 1800–31 Dec
1801, nos 1–3 (another edn); from no 299 as The Porcupine and
Anti-Gallican Monitor; from 1 Jan 1802 absorbed by True Briton.
The Rush-Light. Fortnightly periodical, ed ‘Peter Porcupine’, New
York 15 Feb–30 Apr 1800 nos 1–5; London 30 Aug 1800 no 6 repbd
as An address to the people of England, London and New York
1800, Philadelphia 1812, London 1830; nos 1–4 repbd as The
American Rush-Light, 1800. The Republican Rush-Light 30 Aug
1800 no 7 is a forgery.
A collection of facts. 1801, Philadelphia 1802. Rptd mainly from
Porcupine, 1801, above.
Cobbett’s Political Register. Weekly periodical, ed Cobbett as
Cobbett’s Annual Register, Jan 1802–Dec 1803; as Cobbett’s
Weekly Political Register, 7 Jan 1804–5 Apr 1817 (none issued in
England 12 Apr–5 July 1817, but twice weekly edn 12 Sep 1810–22
June 1811); as Cobbett’s Weekly Political Pamphlet, July–Dec 1817;
as Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register, Jan 1818–7 Apr 1821 (none
issued 21 Mar, 2 May, 27 June–15 Aug, 17 Oct–14 Nov 1818, 29
May–14 Aug, 16 Oct, 20, 27 Nov 1819, or 26 Feb–18 Mar 1820); as
Cobbett’s Weekly Register, 14 Apr–Dec 1827; as Cobbett’s Weekly
Political Register, Jan 1828–12 Sep 1835 (no 11); extracts 1830–2
pbd as Cobbett’s Two-Penny Trash, 1831, 1832; [from 20 June 1835
(no 12) ed W. Cobbett jr]; as Renewal of Cobbett’s Register, Jan
1836 (unnumbered) and 20 Feb 1836 (‘no 2’); full run rptd
Westport CT 1971 (including microform edn). Many pam reprints
of articles in Political Register were issued, particularly after 1810
(see below); periodicals borrowing largely from it, or derived from
it, or influenced by it, are: Le Mercure Anglais (ed Cobbett,
monthly Fr trn of a part, 16 Feb–? May 1803, no known copies);
cheap weekly edns 12 Oct 1816 (first no pbd 2 Nov)–6 Jan 1820
(none pbd in England 12 Apr–5 July 1817), unstamped twopenny
edns (pbd mainly alongside the stamped); Cobbett’s American
Political Register, New York 6 Jan–29 June 1816, May 1817–Jan
1818; Ulster Register, Belfast? 1817 (pbd J. Lawless with Cobbett’s
agreement, no known copy); Weekly Register, Dublin (unauthorised
imitation 1822–4, no known copy); hostile imitations of the
Political Register pbd 1816–17 with Government aid at Romsey
(Romsey Political Register, c. Nov 1816); Detector c. Jan 1817;
Friend of the People Dec 1816–Jan 1817; Anti-Cobbett Mar–Apr
1817; Norwich (Brunswick Weekly Political Register, Feb–Mar
1817); Oxford; and other places (see Home Office Papers 41/1/490,
42/158/160).
Letters to the Right Honourable Henry Addington. 1802.
Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Hawkesbury and the Right
Honourable Henry Addington. 1802, 1802. Rptd mainly from A
collection of facts 1801, and from Letters to Addington 1802,
above. The ninth letter to Lord Hawkesbury pbd separately,
Philadelphia 1802.
Four letters to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 1803. Rptd from
Political Register 9, 16, 23, 30 Apr 1803.
Important considerations for the people of this Kingdom. 1803 (7